FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days agoHow is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update?message-squaremessage-square136fedilinkarrow-up1197arrow-down15
arrow-up1192arrow-down1message-squareHow is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update?FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square136fedilink
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·18 hours agowhy is port forwarding a premium feature? isn’t it just a setting on your router
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·17 hours agoBc $$$. My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra. You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.
minus-squarew00tsy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoLikely they don’t have enough IPs to go around
minus-squareKane@femboys.bizlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 hours agoThere are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called “CGNAT”. Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.
why is port forwarding a premium feature? isn’t it just a setting on your router
Bc $$$.
My provider won’t allow it unless I pay them $15/mo extra.
You can change the setting on your router anytime but it won’t work if your ISP doesn’t actually allow it.
Likely they don’t have enough IPs to go around
There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called “CGNAT”. Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.
that is wild, man